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Posted by Jake on 10/18/05 12:08
In message <oiie23-p6c.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
<usenet200510@tobyinkster.co.uk> writes
>Jake wrote:
>
>> I don't know though. There's people in a certain part of the UK who
>> teach their children from infancy to speak a long-dead language ........
>> ;-)
>>
>> Must be a reason .........
>
>Perhaps because in some parts of the UK, the majority of the population
>speak that language. If the children weren't taught it, people would point
>at them and laugh.
>
>In Gwynedd for example, 76% of the population speak Welsh. Even in
>is-it-part-of-Wales-is-it-part-of-England Monmouthshire, more than one in
>eight people speak Welsh.
>
.............. but ................. Cornish?
Regards.
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Jake (jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk -- just a 'spam trap' mail address)
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